Ann Blandford

Ann Blandford is a British academic in the field of software engineering. She is professor of Human-Computer Interaction at UCLIC and deputy director at University College London Institute of Healthcare Engineering.[1] Her research focuses on behaviour change, well-being, and human errors in the field of healthcare.[2][3]

Professor

Ann Blandford
EducationCambridge University (BA Hons)(1979)
Open University (PhD) (1991)
University College London (FHEA) (1991)
AwardsSuffrage Science - Computing

Education

Blandford graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She worked as a software engineer before pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence and education at the Open University.[3]

Career

Blandford was a professor at the Interaction Design Centre in Middlesex University from 1995 to 2001.

Blandford has been a professor in human-computer interaction at UCLIC since 2002, where her research has involved studies of serendipity, leading to a proposal for a new definition of the phenomenon.[4] She and Stephann Makri then worked to further refine their classification of "serendipitous occurrences".[5] Her current work covers HCI research in digital health, including challenges of interdisciplinarity.[6]

In 2016, Blandford became one of the first 12 women to receive a Suffrage Science award for contributions to the field of maths and computing.[7]

References
  1. "Ann Blandford". UCL Interaction Centre.
  2. "Ann Blandford". UCL Psychology and Language Sciences. January 29, 2018. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  3. "Ann Blandford". The Interaction Design Foundation. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  4. "Serendipity is more than a 'happy accident', researchers say". phys.org. October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  5. Andrew, Liam (July 16, 2014). "I'm feeling lucky: Can algorithms better engineer serendipity in research — or in journalism?". Nieman Lab. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  6. Blandford, Ann; Gibbs, Jo; Newhouse, Nikki; Perski, Olga; Singh, Aneesha; Murray, Elizabeth (2018). "Seven lessons for interdisciplinary research on interactive digital health interventions". Digital Health. 4. doi:10.1177/2055207618770325. PMC 6016567. PMID 29942629.
  7. "Celebrating women in science on Ada Lovelace Day 2016". Suffrage Science. May 6, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
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